The VMware Cloud Provider™ Program is a global network of approximately 4,000 service providers who have built their cloud and hosting services on VMware software. These service providers deliver world-class cloud and hosting services to their customers across the globe, offering value-add and differentiated services that support a wide choice of compliance requirements, performance, scale, market coverage, functional features, and so on. In this way, service providers give existing and new VMware enterprise customers many options when they choose to build out their unified hybrid cloud strategy.

The VMware vCloud® Architecture Toolkit™ for Service Providers supplies architectural guidance on how to build VMware based cloud platforms based on real world service models, implementation examples, use cases, and customer requirements.

This document enables service providers to define their cloud service, understand what use cases they want to support, and what services they want to take to market. From this document, the desired architecture can be positioned to build a VMware Powered Public Cloud service to offer infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), or software as a service (SaaS) to their customers.

This document is intended for those involved in planning, defining, designing, and providing public cloud services to consumers. The intended audience includes the following roles: